TRAVIS COMING AROUND IN MAY?

The band are currently putting the finishing touches to the follow-up to 'The Man Who'...

TRAVIS’ FRAN HEALY has said the band plan to tour the UK in May.

Speaking to fan website [url=]www.astheyare.com, the frontman and singer said: “There are plans to tour, probably starting in the UK in May time, but we can’t be sure until the album’s totally finished.”

Travis are currently in Los Angeles putting the finishing touches to the album, the follow-up to their breakthrough ‘The Man Who’, with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.

Meanwhile, the band will definitely be making an appearance in Ireland before the summer. They will joinManic Street Preachers and All Saints, among others, at the Heineken Green Energy Festival in the grounds of Dublin Castle on May 6.